This, UNESCO maintains, would be a vital step towards the management of cultural resources at the community level.
In addition, the conference will offer the opportunity to discuss on the way to streamline the different cultural cooperation platforms at the ministerial level existing in the South-East European region, in order to improve their coordination and to devise possible forms of convergence.
The research will focus on the implementation of the measures for safeguarding at a national level the intangible cultural heritage, as defined by the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
"This is why Africa has been selected to pilot this Programme, which aims at developing the expertise and know-how necessary to effectively implement the 2005 Convention over the medium term through the elaboration of targeted policies that can strengthen the cultural and creative industries at the national level, " she adds.
At the time the Nazca Lines, which span 85 square miles (220 square kilometers), were drawn, "people were not looking at this stuff from the air, they were looking at stuff from the ground level, " said Timothy Ingold, a cultural anthropologist at the University of Aberdeen, who was not involved in the study.
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The strategic emphasis of the Office in the coming years will lie on strengthening capacities of different stakeholders to safeguard intangible cultural heritage at the national level, and to benefit effectively from the opportunities and mechanisms of international cooperation created by the 2003 Convention, now successfully ratified by all Member States of the SEE region.
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The Pilot Capacity-Building Programme of the 2005 Convention will train 32 African experts this year on specific technical policy-making skills and approaches necessary for strengthening the cultural sector and effectively implementing the2005 Convention at the national level.
Lao PDR, as a Party to the Convention, is expected to present by 30 of April 2012 a periodic report on the policies and measures taken within its territory and at the international level to protect and promote the diversity of cultural expressions.
This English-language workshop is one of the key components of the Capacity-Building Programme of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, which is being piloted in Africa in order to support the implementation of the 2005 Convention at the national level and to boost the potential of the dynamic cultural sector for sustainable development in the region.
He also stressed that among the major topics to be discussed in the meeting are the ratification of the Convention, the implementation of the normative instrument at the national level, the preparation of nominations for the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding and of inventories of expressions of the intangible cultural heritage.
Increasing attention is being paid to enhance effectiveness of international cultural cooperation both at the global and country level.
Advanced university degree, at least at the Masters level, in subjects linked directly with cultural or natural heritage conservation and management.
It was emphasized that since the ratification of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (17 August 2010) Tajikistan is paying special attention to the preservation of ICH at the national level.
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